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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
One of the books I recorded on anthropology this year talked about that, too- it put the term "race" in quotes because anthropologists don't recognize "race" as an accurate way to classify. Ethnicity can be somewhat more useful as a term because then culture factors in and we're all products of culture. As the book put it, so, at what point does a skin tone go from being "white" to "black"? Humans come in every shade from very pale to very dark. Race certainly gets used as justification for social stratification, though.
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yeah, i was talking to my dog about it on the way to work this morning.
no, seriously, i just looked at her and said 'why do humans insist on categorizing everything?'
she had no answer.
but yeah, everything i've read says we are all one 'race'. the human race.
tony and i went to concealed carry class Saturday. in the race box, i put 'h'.
on no.
i just realized, they'll think i'm hispanic. crap.
lol